the Color Wheel

key concept
color, color wheel primary, secondary, origins, mixing

objectives
a) sw be introduced to the color wheel
b) sw be introduced to origins of color, mixing for secondary, pigment vs light
c) sw make a color wheel

*all color comes from reflected light
*light bounces off objects and what we see is left behind,lining to the object
*the absence of light is shadow or shading

procedures 1 session
a) intro to color wheel, primary, secondary
b) students will make a color wheel by 1) tracing a round object 2) using the apropriate size tringle to proportion the wheel to accept 6 colors 3) primary first
then secondary color trying to mix them
c) step by step teacher led adding each color and mixing those secondary colors
d) cut out and take home

materials
white 12x paper, oil pastels, pencil for tracing
artists,
Vincent Van Gogh, Wolf Kahn (from previous lesson), Monet, Piet Mondrian0.jpg

assessment
a) TIO
b) follow instructions
c) color placement
d) color mixing
e) jumping ahead showing that they can read the board illustrations or they under stand the concept of the color wheel.

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complements

Standard-Color-Wheel-1.jpg

tints or adding white to colors on the color wheelcolor-wheel-poster.jpg

the big crazy art color wheel